Description

Being able to communicate your thoughts and ideas successfully—both academically and professionally—requires practice and style. It is common for writers to draft,redraft, and call on tutors or style guides for assistance. Throughout your program experience, you will be encouraged to find your academic and professional writing voice. You will be guided to draft, redraft, and call upon resources that support your writing growth. Although opinions are a beginning to any analysis, to convince your audience that your perspective has merit, you will need to support your thoughts with evidence and examples that strengthen and validate your perspective. Three common resources that are used in higher education and professional arenas to ensure consistency and accuracy are the use of a library, a style format to acknowledge your sources, and access to learning resources. This assignment will enable you to practice with all 3 elements. Although the process of writing at the academic level is important, identifying a connection with the topic is also critical. Finding a personal interest within your topic, regardless of what class you are taking, will motivate you to find out more, to write with excitement, and encourage you to share what you have discovered with your audience. In addition to the writing process, this assignment will also provide an opportunity for you to find connections and elements of motivation when writing. 



Select 1 individual of interest to you from the following list:

Alice Walker

Helen Keller

Shaquille O’Neal

Natalie Portman

Warren Buffett

Hillary Clinton

John McCain

George W. Bush

Barack Obama

Colin Powell

Peyton Manning

Oprah Winfrey

Donald Trump

J.R.R. Tolkien

Condoleezza Rice

J.K. Rowling

Julia Child

Denzel Washington

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Booker T. Washington



Write a 5-paragraph essay about your selected individual that discusses the following points and uses at least 1 quote and 1 paraphrase Use citations and aligned references.

Be sure to address the following:

The reason for your selection of the individual

The obstacles the individual overcame to achieve success

The importance of education to the individual

Tips and inspirational ideas from the individual that you can apply to your educational and professional success

How learning more about the individual impacted your motivation to succeed

Be sure your paper is typed in a 12-point, Times New Roman font, uses paragraph indention, is double-spaced, uses 1-inch margins (top, bottom, left, and right), and is created using Word.



Individual selected from this list, at least 1 source

1 paraphrase and 1 quote used, and properly cited and referenced

Paper reflects content mastery of the selected individual in the areas of obstacles,

educational perceptions, motivation, and the student makes a personal

connection

including 5 paragraph elements present,

grammar, punctuation, style, logical transitions between ideas, length

requirements, and acknowledgement of sources



Reading Assignment

Chapters 5, 12, Section 3: Parts 1 - 5 (The Grammar Handbook), and Back Matter (Appendix F).